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While we lay at this Place several detachments were sent down the river after provisions to Middletown which is 120 miles andwe found and much difficulty in getting provisions suitable for the camping. The provisions which had been provided was by neglect of individuals much damaged and a considerable grant of it lost. We erected a large Tamarack house and saved some by that means which without smoking could not have been made use of. Our provisions came on so slow. The govt was obliged to send down the river into Northumberland